I’ve been pretty outspoken about my opposition to Rex Tillerson being the Secretary of State since he was nominated, and now that he’s gone, I say the following: good. It’s about time.
Now the Senate should exercise more caution in putting the next candidate up to a vote. They didn’t do their jobs with Tillerson and we had an oil executive with basically no diplomatic service who caused 60% of the foreign service agents to resign or retire in his first year, and has left dozens of ambassadorships unfilled.
The new Secretary of State needs to have foreign diplomatic experience, can recruit foreign policy people and can talk to all the departments in his building without playing favorites with political appointees at the expense of his career diplomats.
And he needs to be on the same exact page as President Trump with regards to foreign policy. Tillerson was part of the time. That wasn’t good enough.
It sounds like President Trump is nominating his CIA Director to be the new Secretary of State. Don’t know much about him as much as I knew about Tillerson prior to his being nominated as our top diplomat. Hopefully this nomination will be what the State Department needs.
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